(Methodology): Author here. Technical methodology: The counterintuitive finding: DHS justified the weighted lottery by citing "employers submitting large volumes of low-wage registrations"—understood to mean staffing firms. But our data shows:
Product companies (direct employers): 22.0% Level I concentration
Staffing/consulting firms: 7.1% Level I concentration
Ratio: 3.1×
Tech companies hiring junior engineers get hit 3x harder than the outsourcing firms the rule supposedly targets.
Data: DOL H-1B LCA Disclosure Data FY2024, 517,874 certified applications. Stack: Python, pandas 2.1.0.
